GDT: Game 7: Sharks @ Lightning 4:00pm NBCSCA

[WSS11]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the locker room right about now.

Well, they’re probably a bunch of them in there since this team is sh*t

 

[Cas]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the locker room right about now.

"Can you believe people pay me to do this? Did we get lucky or what!"

 

[stator]

Of course, the Sharks have a year like this when the consensus #1 overall pick isn't a generational talent...

Generational talent is a worn out phrase. To me the last generational talents in the draft were McDavid and Matthews. The rest were mislabeled elite talent.

It's just that elite talent doesn't generate as much ad revenue, clicks, etc., for the hockey media.

These Sharks would lose to the team from Cool Runnings

and Mystery, Alaska too.

 

[Anomie2029]

Who needs to worry about offense when you're generating 1.14 goals per game?

It's all about 'compete'.

 

[Alaskanice]

Who needs to worry about offense when you're generating 1.14 goals per game?

It's all about 'compete'.

Compete leads to many good things. I’ve experienced it.
I’d much rather hear what Mario Ferraro has to say about it.

 

[DG93]

Compete leads to many good things. I’ve experienced it.
I’d much rather hear what Mario Ferraro has to say about it.

Ferraro xGRIT is through the roof and he keeps getting better at it every game, I bet he breaks through real soon. I can feel it!

 

[Cas]

Ferraro has plenty of compete, but he doesn't have enough skill or the smarts to recognize that fact, which is true for most of this team.

 

[sharski]

You think you can win on compete alone?

Gentleman, you don't HAVE ENOUGH COMPETE to win on compete alone

AGAIN

 

[LilLeeroy]

You think you can win on compete alone?

Gentleman, you don't HAVE ENOUGH COMPETE to win on compete alone

AGAIN

The Miracle on Ice will be the Sharks winning the last game of the year to give the 1st overall pick to the Blackhawks.

 

[tiburon12]

The Miracle on Ice will be the Sharks winning the last game of the year to give the 1st overall pick to the Blackhawks.

Y'all are crazy if you think anyone but the Penguins are winning the lottery

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

As a beer-league defenseman I know what it takes to win: it takes good defensemen!

We actually competed in the games with Thrun in the lineup in those games earlier in the season. A guy like Simek should be in the lineup over friggin one-dimensional players like Benning, Burroughs, and Ferraro. Those three pylons need to be moved down in the lineup. If you don't have real two-way defensemen like hotcabbagesoup you won't win.

 

[TheBeard]

I missed the third. Did we win?

 

[weastern bias]

Compete leads to many good things. I’ve experienced it.
I’d much rather hear what Mario Ferraro has to say about it.

This is a great bit

 

[Shark Finn]

I missed the third. Did we win?

Yes, taking into consideration what is the prize we are after

 

[Bizz]

The worst part about losses like this is seeing all the pathetic excuses coming from them in the postgame. Especially the "we were just half a step slow everywhere" coming out of Quinn's mouth.

 

[SjMilhouse]

The worst part about losses like this is seeing all the pathetic excuses coming from them in the postgame. Especially the "we were just half a step slow everywhere" coming out of Quinn's mouth.

I mean what's he supposed to say? My boss gave me a dog shit roster full of fringe NHLers and 3 of our top 6 is hurt?

 

[Shark Finn]

I mean what's he supposed to say? My boss gave me a dog shit roster full of fringe NHLers and 3 of our top 6 is hurt?

Yes. At least make it fun.

 

[coooldude]

I mean what's he supposed to say? My boss gave me a dog shit roster full of fringe NHLers and 3 of our top 6 is hurt?

Exactly. I mean, watching the first period, we were indeed a half step slow everywhere. That's because we don't have a roster that is quick, fast, skilled enough to keep up with one of the best teams in the league. It's no surprise.

As the lineup is right now, we're definitely historically bad. With couture, granlund, and barabanov, we would only be bad to very bad. But we're banking those tank points.

 

[matt trick]

Picked the right time to move to England for 3-5 years, certainly not missing much good in Shark land. Good lord do we need Celebrini. I think we’ve got another 3 years of picking bottom 6 after this as well.

 

[tiburon12]

Picked the right time to move to England for 3-5 years, certainly not missing much good in Shark land. Good lord do we need Celebrini. I think we’ve got another 3 years of picking bottom 6 after this as well.

not to burst your bubble but i got more invested in the sharks than I ever had been like 2 years after moving abroad haha

 

[one2gamble]

The Miracle on Ice will be the Sharks winning the last game of the year to give the 1st overall pick to the Blackhawks.

we both know it doesnt matter where the hawks finish, its them or the pens getting this pick lol

 

[exchequer]

I just didn't necessarily expect us to be HISTORICALLY bad, I think we'll challenge pre-cap era records of futility at this rate

Same here.

As a beer-league defenseman I know what it takes to win: it takes good defensemen!

We actually competed in the games with Thrun in the lineup in those games earlier in the season. A guy like Simek should be in the lineup over friggin one-dimensional players like Benning, Burroughs, and Ferraro. Those three pylons need to be moved down in the lineup. If you don't have real two-way defensemen like hotcabbagesoup you won't win.

Not sure when thrun became a puck moving defenseman

 

[Bizz]

I mean what's he supposed to say? My boss gave me a dog shit roster full of fringe NHLers and 3 of our top 6 is hurt?

I would for once like a coach that doesn't sugar coat anything. I want one who will name names and call things what they are. Then maybe, just maybe he can get the most out of what he has to work with. If he has a problem with the roster, then f***ing call out Mike Grier. Have some f***ing pride in your work as a head coach of a professional sports club. I don't get this whole coaching like he's afraid of offending someone. This isn't some f***ing peewee club, stop babying them and start treating them like men.

But these empty platitudes do nothing and fix nothing.

"half step slow" my ass, those motherf***ers were in a different time zone all game.

"Vlasic needs to be a "little bit" quicker/faster/stronger". No motherf***er, he needs to be a LOT quicker/faster/stronger. Then multiply that by 50.

 

[Alaskanice]

I would for once like a coach that doesn't sugar coat anything. I want one who will name names and call things what they are. Then maybe, just maybe he can get the most out of what he has to work with. If he has a problem with the roster, then f***ing call out Mike Grier. Have some f***ing pride in your work as a head coach of a professional sports club. I don't get this whole coaching like he's afraid of offending someone. This isn't some f***ing peewee club, stop babying them and start treating them like men.

But these empty platitudes do nothing and fix nothing.

"half step slow" my ass, those motherf***ers were in a different time zone all game.

"Vlasic needs to be a "little bit" quicker/faster/stronger". No motherf***er, he needs to be a LOT quicker/faster/stronger. Then multiply that by 50.

Coaches won’t last if they bag on the GM. That’s just silliness to expect that.

 

[Bizz]

Coaches won’t last if they bag on the GM. That’s just silliness to expect that.

He's not gonna last anyways, and he'll have a better shot at landing a head coaching position for a better club that won't stain his W-L record if he shows that he is capable of recognizing and addressing the problems.